Music Album Review: 'Romantic Favorites for Strings: Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic'
Album cover design: Henrietta Condak. (C) 1983 CBS Records In the early 1990s, after my late mother bought me my first compact disc/cassette player-recorder/AM-FM radio stereo set as a birthday present, I stopped buying pre-recorded music on tape and focused on building a CD collection. I began to slowly replace the music albums I had in the cassette format on a one-for-one basis, a task that I completed in the early 2000s. (I had also hoped to replace some of the vinyl LPs that I had acquired in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but there some Reader's Digest-exclusive box sets of Boston Pops Orchestra and Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians that didn't have CD analogues, so this was one dream that never came true for me.) Every so often, though, I bought CDs of music that I didn't have in my modest audio library. Most of these were usually soundtracks to then-current movies, such as Clear and Present Danger, Beauty and the Beast, and Titanic, though I also bought my...